On October 19, 2026, Cloudflare learned that the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates had been compromised. The certificates were widely trusted by browsers, operating systems and Cloudflare itself. Because the keys are weak, an attacker could forge a certificate for any domain and impersonate servers to intercept or mo…
Bank of America hired 1,000 extra contractors in Q2 to patch the volume of vulnerabilities surfaced by Anthropic's Mythos AI model, CEO Brian Moynihan said on the Q3 earnings call. The contractors supplement about 3,000 existing technical staff and are still on site. Moynihan put remediation costs at "a couple of hundred million plus", a …
Certificate authority eMudhra revoked eight intermediate certificates after a researcher known as Wayne found on October 17 that their P-384 private keys were so weak that anyone could recover them almost instantly. The keys, generated in April 2025, had values below 256, so an attacker could recover them by testing 256 candidates. This w…
Google, Mozilla, Apple, the Go project and other organizations moved quickly to block certificates issued by the Indian certificate authority eMudhra. The certificates are tied to 8 compromised keys. It is unclear how the keys were compromised. The source text available is limited to the headline and a short summary, so the scope of the a…
Mozilla received a report on 17 October 2026 that private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate certificates were compromised. The Indian certification authority says it has issued over 60 million certificates. Researchers found some of the keys were trivially small integers, so anyone could forge HTTPS certificates for arbitrary domains an…
Hacktron published a vendor blog post arguing that frontier models such as Anthropic's Mythos are unnecessary for most vulnerability discovery work. To support this, it benchmarked its scanning pipeline across several LLMs against two zero-day authentication bypasses it found in oauth2-proxy v7.15.0: CVE-2026-34457 and CVE-2026-40575. Its…
Mozilla and the Chrome Root Program confirmed on October 20 that the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates (emSign brand) are compromised. Anyone holding these keys could issue certificates for any website that a browser would accept. A researcher credited as "Wayne" reported the compromise on October 17, and Chrome a…
On October 20, the Go team released Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10 on its URGENT track. The certificate verifier now rejects any chain passing through one of eight intermediate CA keys, citing unspecified "specific security concerns around their operation." A commenter on the Go issue matched the SHA-256 key hashes to intermediates of the India…
Microsoft released updates for at least 974 vulnerabilities in Windows and other software, its largest Patch Tuesday ever. The previous record was 570 fixes in July. The 2026 total now exceeds 2,600, more than double the 2020 record year (1,245), with three months still to go. Microsoft and other large vendors, including Adobe, Cisco, Goo…
Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access disclosed in May 2026, according to ReliaQuest. Because access arrives through the victim's own VPN, it can resemble legitimate remote work and go unnoticed until credential theft, lateral movement, …